AT&T Inc on Friday named Jeff McElfresh, who headed its largest business unit, as chief operating officer, part of the U.S. carrier’s efforts to refocus on its connectivity business following the merger of its WarnerMedia unit with Discovery Inc. McElfresh has been with the company for more than 20 years and was most recently the […]
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U.S.-based telecom giants AT&T and Verizon expressed on Sunday their utter rejection of U.S. regulatory demand to postpone their 5G rollout of some wireless services, initially set to be released this week. The telcos’ chief executive officers (CEO), John Stankey and Hans Vestberg sent to U.S. regulators a joint letter igniting tensions between the companies […]
AT&T announced plans to sell its online advertising platform Xandr Inc. to Microsoft, a move that will welcome the Big Tech giant into the digital marketing field. The tech titan stated that Xandr’s digital ad marketing strategies would fundamentally heighten advertising and retail media capacities. Only last year, AT&T disclosed plans to put on the […]
U.S.-based telcos Verizon, AT&T, Intrado, and Lumen Technologies, reached a settlement with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over probes into a series of failed 911 calls throughout 2020’s network outages. According to the FCC’s compliance settlement documents, the operators will collectively pay a $6 million fine, all while consenting to secure compliance with the Commission’s […]
Following the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) examination into whether the C-band spectrum for 5G rollout jeopardizes aircrafts’ safety, AT&T Verizon extended Wednesday their offer to reform power from their fifth-generation cell towers for the upcoming six months. Both U.S.-based telcos structured a plan to launch vital improvements to their 5G networks operating C-band spectrum obtained […]
AT&T announced on Tuesday the initiation of its plan to deploy the fifth generation of network with C-band spectrum, a factor that will reinforce the carrier’s total 5G coverage. Currently, the operator is offering two categorizations of the fifth generation: 5G Plus over high-band mmWave spectrum and regular 5G – which resembles 4G LTE. “AT&T […]